Value Pluralism and AI
Eliezer Yudkowsky sixteen years ago in a text entitled "Fake Utility Functions" expressed an obvious pluralism of value, however without using the word pluralism, instead he spoke of the complexity of value.
Philosophers are still quite uncertain as to whether there is any one more foundational value, or whether there are a plurality of values, none of which is much more foundational than the others.
The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potentials spoke a few decades ago of "an ecosystem of values", but failed to give that ecosystem any topology or any more central values.
Obviously survival should be fundamental to every ecosystem, but humans just as obviously desire more than... (read 361 more words →)
Sustainable freedom? The problem is that everyone decides what freedom is. It's an empty bag and no one can prove that their version of liberalism is true. Not even a super-AI will be able to tell us what true freedom is. It might even say that true freedom is Death... Like the Kenyan sect that recently starved itself to death.
I'd like to talk a little more about intelligent ecological pluralism, but might possibly have to improve my ideas even more to really get people interested.